On this week’s edition of Rebooting The News, NYU Journalism Professor Jay Rosen riffs on the seminal NPR/This American Life co-production from last year, Giant Pool of Money, and finds in it the germ of a compelling argument: Deep reporting is not only good journalism, it may actually be the thing that creates a desire for more news, building new consumers of news where there were none before. From http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/05/rosen-deep-reporting-creates-hunger-for-updates/
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Rebooting the News - Rosen: Deep reporting creates hunger for updates
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Planet Money - A Ponzi Drama
Bernie Madoff woke up in jail today, after pleading guilty to 11 charges stemming from an enormous Ponzi scheme. How enormous? The most recent court documents put the figure at $65 billion. (NPR’s Jim Zarroli describes the courthouse scene.)
In another amazing Planet Money Radio Dramatization, Alex Blumberg, Adam Davidson and David Kestenbaum act out a Ponzi scheme of their own.
With a cameo by Harvey Pitt, former chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, who suggests that the estimate of $65 billion is "badly inflated."
From http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2009/03/hear_a_ponzi_drama.html
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NPR Planet Money podcast - Hear: Geithner’s Stress Test
"If any single human being stands at the center of the global economic crisis, it’s U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. This afternoon, Geithner took his hands off the intricate machinery long enough for an interview with Adam Davidson." From http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2009/02/hear_geithners_stress_test.html